In this issue of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning Bulletin you will find information about this year’s International Literacy Day, updates on the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities, multimedia stories about learning cities’ responses to COVID-19, the latest edition of the International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning, and much more.

Jörg Markowitsch (VET researcher) and Konrad Wakolbinger (documentary film maker) have recently launched Work-o-Witch, an innovative resource in the field of work and education which came into being during the course of the pandemic.